Wondering what Hurricane Sandy and the impending Nor’easter mean for your Halloween plans? Check out the NY Times’ interactive map to see the likelihood of the storm hitting your area. Track the storm’s past, current and future location and weather conditions. Just enter your zip code to see a forecast and satellite images of your local area. Read …
As election season gets underway, that means a few things: more Wolf Blitzer on CNN, sketches on SNL, numerous ad campaigns, and, of course, maps. The New York Times recently released their latest electoral data visualization tool, The Electoral Map: Building a Path to Victory. This interactive infographic features projected outcomes as well as other …
Google helps us search by creating algorithms that fill in our search based on popular hits. So, what happens when Slate starts searching states? They discover a whole range of stereotypes and proceed to make an interactive map of it. Based on the inquiry “Why is (State) so…”, the creators were able to pin point states most commonly …
We posted these maps before but they are just too cool. Stamen Design posted this tile set using Open Street Map data a few weeks ago. The tiles use a water color style and is one of the first truly artistic styles of interactive street maps that we have seen. Kudos to Stamen and their innovative …
Here is a good looking campus map of Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA developed by Promet Source in Chicago. Very simple overall, but that’s why we like it. Lot’s of interactive content and for new students it makes a lot of sense since they won’t know every building on campus yet. They get to see …
Growing from one small store in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1962 to over 4,400 stores across the US today, Walmart has become one of the top dogs in the retail game. There seems to be one in just about every city and town in the United States, and this infographic by Flowing Data shows exactly how they …
How sustainable is transportation in your neighborhood? The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) out of Chicago created this mapping tool to help determine how much it costs, both in dollars and pounds of CO2 emissions, to commute in given areas. The tool lists average cost of transportation per household in the neighborhood and how many metric …
My Block NYC is a crowd sourced video map that allows users to upload videos and geo-tag them bringing the videos into an interactive map environment. And can we say it is one of the coolest interactive crowd sourced projects we have seen. The map (built in Flash), which hit the web on Tuesday, …
